KUZHENKINO: Russian President Vladimir Putin broke his silence Thursday on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny...
A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2023. REUTERSPIX: Russian President Vladimir Putin broke his silence Thursday on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior members of the Wagner paramilitary group.
Although Moscow opened a probe into violations of air traffic rules, investigators have been silent since, as speculation of a possible assassination has grown.“I think everyone knows who this concerns,“ he said, in what appeared to be a reference to Putin. But on Thursday, he said the Wagner members who had died in the crash had made a “significant contribution” to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.
But he added: “Recently he either did not see or did not want to see the full picture of what is happening in the country.”“There’s not much that happens in Russia that Putin’s not behind,“ said US President Joe Biden, after having said he did not know what happened. “Among the versions that are being discussed is that it was staged. But personally, I’m leaning towards the more obvious one,“ she said on social media.
One woman living near Kuzhenkino said her neighbour had heard a roar and saw “sparkling from the plane”, accompanied by fire. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said the US military had “no information to suggest that there was a surface to air missile” involved in the crash.
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